About this plugin
Yem Links turns long URLs into clean short links on your own domain, then tells you the truth about what happens to them.
Two things set it apart from other link managers.
Your click counts exclude bots. Googlebot, Bingbot, AhrefsBot, SemrushBot, GPTBot and more than 25 other crawlers and link-preview bots hit your links constantly. Most link plugins count every one of those as a click, so the numbers you use to judge a placement are inflated by traffic that was never going to convert.
Yem Links filters them out before the counter increments.
Broken destinations surface before your visitors find them. Merchants retire products and change URLs without warning. The built-in health check tests every destination and reports the HTTP status, so you find the dead link instead of your readers finding it.
Built for speed
Links live in two dedicated database tables indexed on the slug, not in wp_posts or wp_options. Redirects fire on plugins_loaded at priority 1, before your theme loads and before WordPress runs its main query. The front-end lookup is cached in the object cache, so on sites running Redis or Memcached a redirect often never touches the database at all.
What you get
- 301, 302 and 307 redirects
- A configurable base prefix: /go/, /out/, /recommends/, or anything you choose
- Custom slugs, categories and tags
- Automatic title fetching when you paste a URL
- One-click copy for every short link
- Bot-filtered click counts
- Link health checking, one link at a time or all at once
- Per-link nofollow and sponsored attributes, ticked for new links by default if you choose
- A Gutenberg block with search, so you can insert links while writing
- A browser bookmarklet for creating links from any page
- A REST API at /wp-json/yem-links/v1/ for programmatic management
- A dashboard with live search, filtering and slide-over editing
Everything above is free, with no account, no key and no feature gates.
Need geo and device targeting, click analytics, keyword auto-linking or A/B split tests? The separate Yem Links Pro add-on adds them, free with a YemLogic account.